Website for Review
http://www.ktyart.com.au

Additional Comments
This site is designed to be my main advertisment as an artist and main contact area for commission work. I also have a shopping cart selling commercial quality design images, posters and images you can use for craft/hobbies. It has only been live for 1 week and I've not had much feedback as yet. All feedback welcome :-)

Hello ktyart,

I have to apologize here - I have a reputation for giving quite lengthy and straightforward reviews - but i can't fault your site from a review perspective.

Maybe it is marketing ideas you need... what have you done to attract or drive traffic to your site so far? Once you've answered that question, then we might have a basis to make some other suggestions.

Nice work,

Elizabeth Richardson

Hello Elizabeth
Thank you for the quick response and its very very nice to know you didn't see any glaring faults ( I've been looking at it for so long I can't tell )

OK, what I wanted to know was if it 'sold' me as an artist?
Does it show off things well?
Was it easy to navigate and see the items in the store ( this was built for me from scratch so it would be good to know )
Should I take anything out ( too verbose ) or add things?

To generate traffic I advertise free images at the main computer graphic sites like deviantart, 3Dcommune and Renderosity. I've added the business to a number of free directories and search engines but I have very little capital left for advertising that costs me money. I'm also thinking of local ads because I hire myself out for commission work and design work but that can be done for international people too.

After 1 week there are no sales but I've had plenty of free downloads ( ie traffic ) I see this from the art sites and I've had plenty of mb go out as downloads....

So, what to do next???

ps - I've had the most productive morning here and I'm so impressed with the quality of info! Thank you!

I spent some time on your site.

Great work. You definitely come across as someone who knows what they are doing.

Only have a couple things to point out;

The images on the left. I was expecting to be taken to a larger image, surprised when I ended up on your store page. I hit my back button and clicked again thinking that maybe I didn't click where I thought I did. This could cause others a little confusion.

On the technical side you have 4 code errors on the home page with 20 to 45 on the inside pages.

Just a couple of quickies as I have to dash
1. The title tag - needs work - put some keywords in there
2. Meta desc - suggest not leading with the URL, put it at the end.
3. Visit my caricature site - link below - I'll do a link swap with you.

HI
I look over your site it has a good layout. You might want to spice up your home page it is a little bit hard to read. If you could just put key points on the home page and then have the indepth content flow through out your site should improve you your CTR.

ColoEagle wrote:

I spent some time on your site.

Great work. You definitely come across as someone who knows what they are doing.

Only have a couple things to point out;

The images on the left. I was expecting to be taken to a larger image, surprised when I ended up on your store page. I hit my back button and clicked again thinking that maybe I didn't click where I thought I did. This could cause others a little confusion.

On the technical side you have 4 code errors on the home page with 20 to 45 on the inside pages.

Thanks for the feedback.

Point noted about the LHS images. Hadn't thought about that....

Re code errors - can you be more specific ( if you have time )? What type exactly? What did you do to generate them? Do you mean HTLM errors? It was tested in a number of browsers but I could have missed some....

thank you....

Wazue wrote:

HI
I look over your site it has a good layout. You might want to spice up your home page it is a little bit hard to read. If you could just put key points on the home page and then have the indepth content flow through out your site should improve you your CTR.

Ok, thank you. Good point.
btw - Nothing more is being changed today ( soon but not today whew.... )

but I very much appreciate the feedback

Cheers!

matte wrote:

Just a couple of quickies as I have to dash
1. The title tag - needs work - put some keywords in there
2. Meta desc - suggest not leading with the URL, put it at the end.
3. Visit my caricature site - link below - I'll do a link swap with you.

Thank you! and thank you for the quick but effective feedback :-)

As I just said, no new changes today but I will return! after digesting this feedback and seeing what can be changed....

thank you and cheers

ktyart wrote:

Re code errors - can you be more specific ( if you have time )? What type exactly? What did you do to generate them? Do you mean HTLM errors? It was tested in a number of browsers but I could have missed some....

thank you....

I use the html tidy add on for FireFox

Your home page;

Result: 4 errors / 0 warnings



line 20 column 55 - Error: character ";" not allowed in attribute specification list

line 20 column 55 - Error: element "changeImages.arguments.length" undefined

line 41 column 12 - Error: end tag for "changeImages.arguments.length" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified

line 20 column 25 - Info: start tag was here

line 259 column 267 - Error: required attribute "alt" not specified

Your Portfolio page;

Result: 45 errors / 0 warnings



line 22 column 52 - Error: character ";" not allowed in attribute specification list

line 22 column 52 - Error: element "changeImages.arguments.length" undefined

line 43 column 12 - Error: end tag for "changeImages.arguments.length" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified

line 22 column 22 - Info: start tag was here

line 78 column 89 - Error: required attribute "alt" not specified

line 84 column 72 - Error: there is no attribute "height"

line 92 column 137 - Error: end tag for "img" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified

line 92 column 36 - Info: start tag was here

line 102 column 134 - Error: end tag for "img" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified

line 102 column 32 - Info: start tag was here

line 103 column 37 - Error: document type does not allow element "td" here

line 109 column 137 - Error: end tag for "img" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified

line 109 column 36 - Info: start tag was here

line 110 column 37 - Error: document type does not allow element "td" here

line 116 column 137 - Error: end tag for "img" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified

line 116 column 36 - Info: start tag was here

line 117 column 37 - Error: document type does not allow element "td" here

line 123 column 137 - Error: end tag for "img" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified

line 123 column 36 - Info: start tag was here

line 124 column 37 - Error: document type does not allow element "td" here

line 130 column 137 - Error: end tag for "img" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified

line 130 column 36 - Info: start tag was here

line 131 column 37 - Error: document type does not allow element "td" here

line 137 column 137 - Error: end tag for "img" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified

line 137 column 36 - Info: start tag was here

line 138 column 37 - Error: document type does not allow element "td" here

line 144 column 137 - Error: end tag for "img" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified

line 144 column 36 - Info: start tag was here

line 145 column 37 - Error: document type does not allow element "td" here

line 151 column 137 - Error: end tag for "img" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified

line 151 column 36 - Info: start tag was here

line 152 column 37 - Error: document type does not allow element "td" here

line 153 column 112 - Error: end tag for "img" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified

line 153 column 35 - Info: start tag was here

line 154 column 37 - Error: end tag for "td" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified

line 93 column 34 - Info: start tag was here

line 173 column 125 - Error: required attribute "alt" not specified

line 179 column 123 - Error: required attribute "alt" not specified

line 183 column 125 - Error: required attribute "alt" not specified

line 189 column 123 - Error: required attribute "alt" not specified

line 247 column 97 - Error: required attribute "alt" not specified

line 264 column 92 - Error: required attribute "alt" not specified

line 268 column 131 - Error: an attribute value specification must be an attribute value literal unless SHORTTAG YES is specified

line 268 column 134 - Error: required attribute "alt" not specified

line 270 column 96 - Error: an attribute value specification must be an attribute value literal unless SHORTTAG YES is specified

line 270 column 134 - Error: required attribute "alt" not specified

line 288 column 92 - Error: required attribute "alt" not specified

line 292 column 140 - Error: required attribute "alt" not specified

line 294 column 148 - Error: required attribute "alt" not specified

line 313 column 92 - Error: required attribute "alt" not specified

line 317 column 122 - Error: required attribute "alt" not specified

line 319 column 129 - Error: required attribute "alt" not specified

line 334 column 92 - Error: required attribute "alt" not specified

line 338 column 119 - Error: required attribute "alt" not specified

line 340 column 124 - Error: required attribute "alt" not specified

line 364 column 81 - Error: required attribute "alt" not specified

line 372 column 81 - Error: required attribute "alt" not specified

If you don't already have it get FireFox

Then get HTML Tidy

Excellent! thank you. I will get the tidy add on and give it a whirl. Fantastic feedback and exactly what I was after....

cheers and beers!

Your welcome, glad to help out.

Keep up the great work.

I absolutely love your website. I love the freebies and the try before you buy. I love how quick the pages load considering the graphics. The only thing I didn't like was the drab gray as the  background. I think another color possibly brighter will make the art stand out from the page. Forgot to check on the return policy.

Thanks

Shonda Miles

Thank you for the review and the praise.

One reason I chose grey is because it doesn't clash with my images or cast a coloured hue over them - you can get very strange effects from combinations of colours and I wanted my artwork to stand out. I could always try a slightly lighter version to brighten the pages.....

my developer/builder has about 4 new meetings this week so my changes will be made later.....

thanks for the review

Cheers

Great site, I really like the basic layout, its clean and simple.  Pages load quickly and it was very easy to navigate.

Hello,

I like it. Good navigation, no need to scroll down much, given the amount of information, subtle colour scheme, and a clear message what it is about. However, I would seriously reconsider fonts - they are a bit boring. and white is not generally readable, but I guess in the current colour scheme there is not much choice.

best wishes,

Hi Kate

I have been looking at your site and am very impressed with how professional it looks. I did however find some of the pages slightly slow to load - no doubt as a result of the number of images.

I am new to websites so can't give you any technical feedback, but will stress that it looks clean and upmarket. Well done

Margaret

Doesn't matter if it is a template, dynamically created or static complete handcoding.

Tidy will show the errors from the code that is placed for the page.

Did you visit your website or try it from your editor?

Now I am all for and push valid code, however the most important thing for any website is that it displays properly in any browser.

The DTD is important to accomplish this. The use of one takes the guesswork out for the browser.
Valid code is that extra bit of insurance for proper display.
Valid code helps to make your website more accessible to those that use asisstive devices or do not use the mouse for navigating a website.